Please Plan Ahead

With school coming dangerously close to the end of the school year, please don't wait until the last minute to throw away your recycle material. While our kids will try and get to everyone 2-3 times in the last 2 weeks of school, it will make things much easier if you start discarding your recycables as soon as possible. Thank you

Links for Nevada Recycling

Here are some links for recycling in Nevada. Clark County only recycles about 5% of it's garbage, which has to be one of the lowest rates in the country. Here are some links to help you recycle in Nevada and the Las Vegas area:
http://www.recyclingcenters.org/Nevada/
http://republicservicevegas.rtrk.com/?scid=313983&kw=625112:12063
http://nevadarecycles.gov/
http://nevadarecycles.gov/doc/Clark%20County%20Com%20Guide_8x11.pdf
http://www.donttrashnevada.org/recycle.htm

Our work crew

Our work crew consists of 4 high school students with multiple disabilities. Our students go to about 120 classrooms a week to pick up items for recycling and after they fill up our trusted grocery basket, we dump the basket by hand into the recycling dumpster, provided by Secure Fibres of North Las Vegas.

Members of our crew are: Ernestina, Juan, Julio and Manuel

Welcome to the DPHS Recycling Page.

Welcome to the Desert Pines High School recycling page.

Desert Pines is a high school in Las Vegas and part of the Clark County School District. the school has over 2800 students.

Up until this year, there has not been a recycling program, so this year, I decided to start a program that was to be run by my students who have multiple disabilities, including severe cognitive disabilities.

I did not start this program because it would save space in our local garbage dump. the Clark County landfill is supposed to last 200 more years and when that is filled up, they can move across the freeway and build another dump. There is no shortage of landfill space in Nevada. I did not do so we can save the planet or for monetary reasons. Even though we have recycled over 25 tons, it will not make a difference in our part of the planet. Further, with prices for recycled products severely depressed, it makes no sense to try and make money.

What I use recycling for is for my students. My students, all high school aged, but function around the 3-6 year old level, use this as job and social skills experience. My students learn a work ethic, social and employment skills, get physical excersise and this will help them after they graduate from our hgh school.